Re: Stop it all ! It's a case of emergency !

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> Today, or tomorrow, Yellowstone will erupt, and the
> whole mankind will be reduced to a few thousand people
> again. And probably they will speak the same language,
> and it's not sure at all it will be English... (Maybe
> Chinese ?) And everything will start from new again.
Well, not so fast.  First of all, before the genetic bottleneck
humanity by no means consisted of six billion people spread across
the whole of the earth.  The starting situation is far different.

> Shall we hope that there is a margin of uncertainty
> of, say 1%, in this terrible prevision ? That would
> leave us, well... about 6.000 years more to discuss
> about linguistics.
At present rates, in 6000 years we should be able to do something
about it: or indeed we may be so dispersed that the loss of a
single planet will not extirpate us.

> Anyway, stay prepared.
"Watch the skies."
	--famous last line of a Cold War era horror movie about aliens

--
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[T]here is a Darwinian explanation for the refusal to accept Darwin.
Given the very pessimistic conclusions about moral purpose to which his
theory drives us, and given the importance of a sense of moral purpose
in helping us cope with life, a refusal to believe Darwin's theory may
have important survival value. --Ian Johnston

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